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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does tradition signify in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) A dynamic development of black culture.
(b) A chance to invent tradition going forward.
(c) A world of opportunities in industrialism capitalism.
(d) A history of reclaiming the self from slavery.

2. What does Gilroy say modernism relies on?
(a) A sense of justice, and a development of political institutions.
(b) A sense of transformation, and an evolution from the past.
(c) A sense of progress, and a continuity with the past.
(d) A sense of time and a break with the past.

3. What were Richard Wright's politics?
(a) Militarist.
(b) Communist.
(c) Anti-imperialist.
(d) Socialist.

4. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?
(a) Primitive culture and modern culture.
(b) Self-aware intellect and blind impulses and urges.
(c) Politics of subordination and politics of emancipation.
(d) Politics of fulfillment and politics of transformation.

5. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?
(a) Deny it.
(b) Commercialize it.
(c) Repossess it.
(d) Escape it.

6. What kinds of stories does Gilroy say dominate black popular culture?
(a) Suffering and revenge.
(b) Justice and its consequences.
(c) Love and loss.
(d) Freedom and its costs.

7. What does Gilroy say is the only way to deal with the history of slavery?
(a) To look it in the face.
(b) To try to hide the past away.
(c) To live with what is in the present.
(d) To dig into the past to find a personal origin in it.

8. What do Jews and blacks fear from a discussion of the Holocaust and slavery?
(a) Confronting all the things that cannot be known.
(b) Remembering.
(c) The lack of evidence from their familial histories.
(d) Loss of uniqueness.

9. What horrified Richard Wright in Gilroy's account?
(a) The history of blacks in America.
(b) Blacks criticizing his characters.
(c) Europeans taking his books as true indications of life in America.
(d) Whites identifying with his black characters.

10. What ontological state does Gilroy say is the heart of many stories in black culture?
(a) The state of displacement from the self.
(b) The state of longing for self-expression and fulfillment.
(c) The state of nostalgia for home.
(d) The state of being in pain.

11. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright was the first black writer to achieve?
(a) Bestseller status in Europe.
(b) Recognition by the international literary establishment.
(c) The Pullitzer Price for fiction.
(d) Bestseller status in the U.S.

12. What does Gilroy say the Afrocentrism movement relies on?
(a) An ongoing civilization in Africa.
(b) A linear period of time interrupted by slavery.
(c) A uniquely black culture in England and the U.S.
(d) The development of jazz and the blues in America.

13. What feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?
(a) Homelessness.
(b) Longing.
(c) Terror.
(d) Rebelliousness.

14. What does Gilroy say the Holocaust should help us see?
(a) The destructive potential of bureaucracies.
(b) The numbness to human suffering that comes from modernism.
(c) The limits of rationality.
(d) The murderous potential in technology.

15. What movement is Richard Wright associated with?
(a) Black power.
(b) Muslim militarism.
(c) Black pacifism.
(d) Pan-Africanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Holocaust help us understood according to Gilroy?

2. What theory culminated in the Holocaust?

3. What does Gilroy say about racial traditions?

4. How does Gilroy characterize the third mode of double consciousness?

5. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?

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